H.E. Mrs. Edith Hazel, Ambassador

Her Excellency the Ambassador, Mrs. Edith Hazel was posted as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Royal Kingdom of Denmark with concurrent accreditation to Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland in July 2014. Until her appointment she was the Deputy Head of Ghana’s Mission in Washington D.C. – USA. From 2001 – 2005, she was a Member of Parliament for the Evalue Gwira Constituency in the Western Region of Ghana. As a former Board Chairperson of the Ghana Water Company, Ambassador Hazel comes to the new post with a wealth of experience and international exposure which is needed for a successful tour of duty. The Ambassador operates an open door policy to all Ghanaians residing in the Nordic countries. It is her desire to ensure that Ghanaians in the various countries establish umbrella Ghanaian Associations and where these associations exist, strengthen them for the benefit of Ghanaian citizens. To implement the Government diaspora engagement programme, it is the desire of the Ambassador to engage Ghanaians in the Nordics with the view of harnessing their expertise for National Development.

“In the past what we have done has been to manage the situation. I do not intend to manage ourselves out of the situation as has been done in the past. I intend to fix it! I owe it to the Ghanaian people. I, John Dramani Mahama, will fix this energy challenge”.

Ghana is endowed with abundant natural wealth, including vast agricultural, mining and human resources. Along with its growing manufacturing sector, agriculture remains a key sector of the economy. The agrarian sector employs 60 percent of the Ghanaian workforce and makes up almost 44 percent of the country's GDP. Cocoa exports from Ghana enjoy a premium on the world market as a result of its high quality.

"AKWAABA", It’s an expression you will hear several times daily as you travel around Ghana, one that will ring in your ears at night, and bring a smile to your face for weeks after you leave. Akwaaba! It means ‘Welcome’! And you will be.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, President Mahama has, since assuming office, intensified efforts towards positioning the country’s security agencies to adequately respond to contemporary security challenges. This has been done through the biggest retooling of the security agencies in recent Ghanaian history. Below are highlights of some of the interventions Government has made to equip the security agencies:

President John Dramani Mahama and the Prime Minister of Norway, Ms Erna Solberg, have been appointed Co-Chairs of a group of sixteen (16) eminent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates to support the Secretary-General in his efforts to generate momentum and commitment to achieve the SDGs by 2030.

Kwame Nkrumah became the first prime and later president of Ghana. He was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in what was then the British-ruled Gold Coast, the son of a goldsmith. Trained as a teacher, he went to the United States in 1935 for advanced studies and continued his schooling in England, where he helped organize the Pan-African Congress in 1945. He returned to Ghana in 1947 and became general secretary of the newly founded United Gold Coast Convention but split from it in 1949 to form the Convention People's party (CPP).